Ricardas Zitikis

University of Western Ontario, Canada

Ričardas Zitikis received his Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Mathematics at Vilnius University, Lithuania, in 1988. Afterward, he worked at the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences for a decade, with visiting positions at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and Carleton University in Canada. Zitikis is currently within the Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. He has published extensively in the areas of mathematics (applied and theoretical), probability (applied and theoretical), statistics (applied and theoretical), stochastic processes (empirical and related ones), actuarial science (risk measures, insurance), econometrics (economic inequality, time series), risk analysis (reliability engineering, lifetime analysis), and theoretical biology (lifetime analysis, ageing). Moreover, Zitikis enjoys solving mathematical and statistical problems with researchers around the world.